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soʊˈsaɪ nəssoci·nus
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Socinus, Faustus Socinus, Fausto Paolo Sozzininoun
Italian theologian who argued against Trinitarianism (1539-1604)
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Fausto Paolo Sozzini, or simply Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus (Polish: Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian, and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church between the 16th and 17th centuries, and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period.Fausto Sozzini recollected most of his uncle Lelio's religious writings by traveling over again his routes throughout early modern Europe, and systematized his Antitrinitarian beliefs into a coherent theological doctrine. His polemical treatise De sacrae Scripturae auctoritate (written in the years 1580s and published in England in 1732, with the title A demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion, from the Latin of Socinius) was highly influential on Remonstrant thinkers such as Simon Episcopius, who drew on Sozzini's arguments for viewing the sacred scriptures as historical texts.
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Socinus is the Latinized name of the Italian theologian Fausto Paolo Sozzini (1539-1604), who was the founder of a school of Christian thought, known as Socinianism, that rejected the traditional Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, advocating instead for a rational and moralistic approach to religion. Socinus is also often used to refer to this school of thought or its followers.
Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers
Socinus
[Ital. Sozzini] (Fausto), anti-trinitarian, born Siena, 5 Dec. 1539. He adopted the views of his uncle, Laelio, (1525–1562), and taught them with more boldness. In 1574 he went to Switzerland, and afterwards to Poland, where he made many converts, and died 3 March, 1604.
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